Fossil Fuel because fossils are found at the same layers as the source rock.
Granted that Algae and the like don’t leave much of a fossil, but their neighbors do.
You described the origins of coal, but oil is not so cut and dried. There is some thought that it condensed out of the solar nebula and didn't originate from anything living.
Actually recent theories are that oil and other “fossil fuels” come from geological processes...
It's loaded with hydrocarbons.
/johnny
Petroleum is formed under great pressure from calcium carbonate (chalk), ferrous oxide (rust), and water in the Earth’s crust at a depth of approximately 60 km.
Dinosaurs and vegetation have nothing to do with it.
Even these other fossilized materials make up just a tiny fraction of the hydrocarbons we can and do extract as oil. For one thing, hydrocarbons appear to be commonplace in other parts of our solar system. Some of the outer planets have "moons" that are covered in seas of frozen methane. Organic compounds have even been detected in other planetary systems within our galaxy.
The conventional wisdom which dictates that oil, gas, and coal are exclusively derived from ancient life forms is perpetuated these days for two reasons. One, to protect "experts" whose reputations and livelihoods are based blind attachment to an illogical and outmoded theory.
And two, so that Chicken Little environmentalists can continue to make their projections every few years and decades that we are fast approaching the end of the supply of oil. The fact that "proven reserves" of the same have steadily increased over those same decades is simply an inconvenient fact they must ignore to keep the grant money flowing.
I have been saying for 20 YEARS that oil comes from COMPRESSION of rocks. I don’t know if I’m right but I NEVER bought “dinosaurs and such” crap.
Dude, you seem to be confused.
The term "fossil" refers to plants as well as animals preserved in this way.
It's just that plant fossils don't get much attention because people are much more interested in fossil animals.
Can someone explain how trees, animals, etc formed the oil that lies two miles below the surface here in the Bakken formation?
Hydrogen my friends. It is the hydrogen atom, as it breaks its bond from a molecule, that releases energy. Humanity is blessed with an abundant supply of this wonderful gift that has lifted man from a stone hammer to an atomic particle accelerator. To economically and efficiently store, transport and use hydrogen we can ask for no better a medium than the lowly hydrocarbon molecule. Albert Einstein pointed out that Hydrogen is one of the two most abundant things in the universe. The other is well documented by some of the discussions in this thread.